 mlernerPremium
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Nepean, ON
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Re: caps? At some point the faster speed for less becomes irrelevant. If you want speed 10-15 mbps is enough, anything above is a waste because you're typically not going to get any higher for surfing or email use. You can't justify low caps on a 50 mbps service otherwise what's the point. |
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 NOCManMacChatterPremium
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Colorado Springs, CO | said by mlerner:At some point the faster speed for less becomes irrelevant. If you want speed 10-15 mbps is enough, anything above is a waste because you're typically not going to get any higher for surfing or email use. You can't justify low caps on a 50 mbps service otherwise what's the point. That's not necessiarily true..
I have game updaters that user torrent technology and it routinely saturates my 20Mbit/20Mbit service while it's running.
iTunes/Amazon/Netflix also get upwards of 10mbit when downloading movies etc.
Webservers can also get up there. Anything less than 5mbit can slow down page loads for content rich pages since most large companies can burst up to 5-10mbit for small files. Though Youtube seems to be having some major issues.
I would argue that 50mbit is overkill for anyone.. Right now 20mbit to me is a sweet spot for price/vs performance.
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mlernerPremium
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Nepean, ON
kudos:5 | said by NOCMan:said by mlerner:At some point the faster speed for less becomes irrelevant. If you want speed 10-15 mbps is enough, anything above is a waste because you're typically not going to get any higher for surfing or email use. You can't justify low caps on a 50 mbps service otherwise what's the point. That's not necessiarily true.. I have game updaters that user torrent technology and it routinely saturates my 20Mbit/20Mbit service while it's running. iTunes/Amazon/Netflix also get upwards of 10mbit when downloading movies etc. Webservers can also get up there. Anything less than 5mbit can slow down page loads for content rich pages since most large companies can burst up to 5-10mbit for small files. Though Youtube seems to be having some major issues. I would argue that 50mbit is overkill for anyone.. Right now 20mbit to me is a sweet spot for price/vs performance. Right you may get more or less but 15 is all you're gonna need realistically for low usage and if you're that low usage chances are you're NOT using torrents. |
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| said by mlerner:said by NOCMan:said by mlerner:At some point the faster speed for less becomes irrelevant. If you want speed 10-15 mbps is enough, anything above is a waste because you're typically not going to get any higher for surfing or email use. You can't justify low caps on a 50 mbps service otherwise what's the point. That's not necessiarily true.. I have game updaters that user torrent technology and it routinely saturates my 20Mbit/20Mbit service while it's running. iTunes/Amazon/Netflix also get upwards of 10mbit when downloading movies etc. Webservers can also get up there. Anything less than 5mbit can slow down page loads for content rich pages since most large companies can burst up to 5-10mbit for small files. Though Youtube seems to be having some major issues. I would argue that 50mbit is overkill for anyone.. Right now 20mbit to me is a sweet spot for price/vs performance. Right you may get more or less but 15 is all you're gonna need realistically for low usage and if you're that low usage chances are you're NOT using torrents. And that is still not true.
Sure, 15MBPS may have been all someone needed... if this was 2003. Try 150MBPS for today's applications. Video streaming, teleconferencing, VPN, digital distribution, porn (caught that didn't you? :P), heavy gaming; and I don't mean joke marathon sessions, I mean TRUE heavy gaming. Remind me to map my network for you to give you an idea of what I mean.
Then come little stuff like torrents. Though that's a matter of opinion depending on if you play games like World of Warcraft, or used things like Joost before it changed its application model. Such things are likely to burn GB at a time.
50MBIT is not overkill.
1GB is not overkill. It all depends on your application level and your needs. Frankly, my needs are more than most other persons.
I apologize. Sorry that I actually take advantage of the markets and mediums available to me. Ask around what I do with access to 100mbits. I've been known to do, at minimal, 300GB per day, and that's before accounting for torrent traffic (which doesn't raise the numbers by much).
Perhaps I should curtail my usage? (Ha ha, no). |
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| said by PapaMidnight:I've been known to do, at minimal, 300GB per day, and that's before accounting for torrent traffic (which doesn't raise the numbers by much). What are you doing on a residential line? Get yourself an OC-48, or more!
It took me 2-3 years just to download 1 TB (that's 333 GB per year, not per month; and your doing that on a daily basis?) And being on a slow DSL connection had little to do with it. I torrent fansubbed anime, mostly. And that is all the shows that ever garnered my interest. If I had 30 Mb/s instead of 3 Mb/s, I would have downloaded that TB ten time faster. I would not have downloaded ten times more. I hit periods, now, where I will go for weeks without a torrent underway; just because not all anime grabs my interest.
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